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If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
